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LITERARY REVIEW. 'SPEECVIES delivered by the Bight Honourable CANNING, i,t the publio Celebration of his third Itetur to ntrlianient fur the Town of Liverpool, June 29, 1318. It is witlt no ticgree of pleqstire evc re 'mind our Readers that THE SUN was the medion thrott4h which this adil)rdbie Spet:cli was inst submitteti to the Loidota were struck with its importance at a cur , ory glance, and, prcsstd as we were for time and space, we %%Tye determi:ied that " the coldness of delay should uot hang over" a wotk 30 welt calculated to un- led the sopistries of Faction, and to inculcAte sound political plincipies; w•e therefore inserted it on the day when it reached Town. We have since taken riLlity opportunities of recommending the circulation of i:, in► cheap Editions, through out the British Empire. Our wish has been abundantly gratified, fur several loyal characters of Liverpool, naturally proud that their town could boast 'Of such a Representative, and anxious to difinse.a composition so well fitted to counter act the doctrines cf mot!cru Reformers, or ra ther Revolutionists, had many thousands of it printed and disseminated all over the United Kingdom. It is a proof of the sound principles and the irrefragabie reasoning of this Speech, that no attempt has been made to refute any of its positions, even in the factious Journals of the Metropolis, and that the only abut tive opposition to it which has occurred, was ti:ade in the drunken re velry of a Party dinner by Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, %Ow well knew that whatever he said on such an occasion would be sure of applause, whether he uttered rank nonsense, or might have had some glimmerings of meaning, which his hearers were not likely to perceive. Sir FRANCIS acted rather imprudently, in attempting to handle a work too large for his grasp, and _which could only expose hint to censure, for appearing to con ceive that such a time and such a place were fit for the discussion of_questions of intricacy end importa:;ce. But he knew he could not venture to attack the work where be would be in danger of receiving an answer, and what he said must therefore he considered as mere declamation, suitable to the capacity and disposition of a factious assembly. The same feelings which act tr,ated the loyal Gentlemen in Liverpool, has induced Mr. NtcoL, whose at- tachment to our venerably Monarch has lo n g been known, and wlw, was long honoured with the Royal favour, to print these. Speeches in their present handsome form, and to distribute them with a zeal which shet%s a sense of public spirit that overpowers all considerations of prist3te. ad vantage. 13:tore we proceed to extract a few passages that cannot ,be too strongly impressed on the Public, we may venture to take some cre- dit also for having been the first to publish in a London pint the admirable Speeches of Messrs. CHARLES GRANT, Senior and Junior, and that o Mr. SINCLAIR, on tl►e respective Elections for the Counties of Inverness and Caithness, all pure effusions of patriotic eloquence, that well deserve to be rescued front the perishable columns- of a Newspaper, and to be preserved in permanent re positories of political wisdom. We differ, in- deed, with Mr. SINCLAIR in some points, butt the purity of his principles, his true public spirit, and the enlargement of his views, justly entitle him to the esteem and confidence of the People. We shall now subjoin an extract from the 'l'ract be fore us, which conveys i!nportant truths %%kit such force and doquence, that we are sure our Readers will thank us for bringing it again to their notice : ‘, Gentlemen, it does seem somewhat singular, and I con' eeire that . l he historian of future times will he at a loss ,to imagine how it should happen, that at this particuiar period, at the, close of a war of such unexampled brilliancy, in which this country had acted a part, so much beyond its supposed physical strength and its apparent resource. there should arise a sect of philosophers•in this country, who begin- to suspect something. rotten in the BritiA;Constitntion. The history of 'Europe for the last twenty-five years is something like this :—A gigantic power went forth, animated with the spirit of evil, to overwhelm every community of the civilized world. Before this dreadful assailant, empires, and monar chits, and republics, bowed ; some were crumbled into dust, and some bought-their safety by compromise. In the midst of this wide-spread ruin, among totteriug„ columns, and fall ing edifices; one fabric alone stood erect and braved the storm Cand not only provided for its own internal security, bUt was enabled to send forth at every portal, armed aids to whoever wanted support. On this edifice floated that ensign (pointing to the British flag), a signal of rallying to the com batant, and of shelter to the fallen. " To an impartial observer, I will not say to an inhabitant of this little fortress—to an impartial observer, in Whatever part of the world, one should think something of this 'sort would have occurred":—Here is a fabric constructed upon sonic principles not common to others around it; principles which enable it to-stand erect while every thing is prostrate or tottering around it. In the 'construction of this fabric there roust be some curious felicity which the eye of the philosopher would-be well employed in investigating,and which its neigh hours may profit by adopting. This, I say, Gentlemen, wou ld have been an obvious inference. But what shall we think of their understandings who draw an inference directly he re- kvh'' 1 " Us, 11.1 v, 5t.,,;(1 ~ I leirathers liave fallen; when others have crouched, yoei have borne your selves aldfr ; yen atone have resisted the pov,.er which has shaken and swallowed up half the civilized 'world. We like northis suvicions peculiarity. - There wrist be something wrong in your internal c.niforitiation !' With this unhappy curiosity, and in the spirit of this perverse analysis, they pro ceed to dissect our ConstitutiOn. they find that, like other State `we have a monarch; that a nobility, thoughilvt or ganiAd like ours, is common to all the great empires of Eu top, ; but that, am distinction lies in a popular assembly, which gives life, and vigour, and strength to the whole frame of the Government. I here, therefore, they find the seat of our disease. Our reccant part is, undoubtedly, the House of Commons. Hence oar presumptuous exemption from what -was • the conmon lot of all nor neighbours ; the anomaly ought for: ;with to be corrected; and, therefore, the House of Com:nous must be reformed. " Gentlemen, it cannot but hare struck you as somewhat extraordin , :ry, that whereas, in speaking of foreign Sove teigns, our reformers are never very sparing of uncourtly epithets; that whereas, in discussing the general principles of Government, they seldom omit an opportunity of discre diting and deriding the privileged orders of society; yet, when they come to discuss the British Constitution, nothing can be more respectful than their language towards the Crown; nothing more forbearing titan their treatment of the aristocracy. With the House of Cloutmons alone they take th e freedom of familiarity ; upon it they pour out all the vials of their wrath, and exhaust their denunciations of amend ment. " Gentlemen, this, though extraordinary, is not unintelli gible. The reformers are wise in their generation. They know well enough, and have read plainly enough in our own history, that the prerogatives of the Crown and the privileges of the Peerage would be but as dust in the balance against a preponderating democracy. They mean' democracy and, nothing else. And, give them but A House of Commons constructed on their own principles, the Peerage and the Throne may exist for a day, but may be swept from the face of the earth by the first angry vote of such a House of Com mons. " It is, therefore, utterly unnecessary for the reformers to declare hostility to the Crown; it is, therefore, utterly super fluous for them to make war against the Peerage. They kuow that, let but their principles hare full play, the Crown and the Peerage would be to the Constitution which they assail, but as the baggage to the army —and the destruction of them but as the gleanings of the battle. They know that the battle is with the House of Commons, as at present constituted ; and that that once overthrown, another popular assembly constructed on their principle—as the creature and depository of the people's power', and the unreasoning instrument of the people's will 7 there would not only be no chance, but (I will go further for them in avowal, though not in inten tion, than they go themselves,) there would not be a pretenee for the existence of any other branch of the Constitution. "Gentlemen, the whole fallacy lies in this : - the reformers reason from false premises, and therefore are driving on their unhappy adherents to false and dangerous conclusions. The Constitution of this country. is a Monarchy, controlled by two assemblies ; the one hereditary, independent alike of the Crown and the People; the other elected by and fur the People, but elected for the purpose of controlling and not administering the Government. The error of the reformers, error it can be called, is, that they argue as if the Consti tntion of this country was a democracy, inlaid (for ornament's sake) with a Peerage, and topped (by sufferance) with a Crown. " If they say that for such a Constitution, that is, in effect, for an unbalanced democracy, the present House of Commons is not sufficiently popular,' they are right; but such a Con stitution is not what we hare or what we desire. %re are born under a Monarchy which it is our duty, as n►uch as it is for our happiness, to preserve ; and which there cannot be a shadow of doubt that the .reforms which are recommended to its would destroy." lIEATItICAL REGISTER. • Perpwmed on Saturday Night. Tli E.% T Fan Tutti. End of the First Act, La Veillee Villageoise. After the Opera, Zcphir, ou le Itetonr do Printemp. THEATRE 4,01'.% L, FlaYslammr.—The Africans : Sullen, Mr. Warde: Berissa, Miss E. Blanchard. After which, Exit by Mistake THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA, STRAND.----LiOMA and Clarissa : Lionel, Mr. Pearman ; Clarissa, Miss Carew. After which, La Perouse. TO CORREgi'ONDENTS. Letter the First, signed FENTO`i tcr., on EDLICATION, To-morrow. MAILS AnruvED-2 Dublin, 2 Waterford, I Holland, 1 Flatirlert , , 1 France. Dut —I Sweden, 1 Hamburg!), 1 LiO.qm. PRICE 01 ruts DAY AT T 3 per Cent. Red. '7; 78 a v et. Cent. 7741 31 per Cent 844- 4 per Cent*. 5 per Cent. Navy Ann.... 104 Bank Long-AIM 201 11-161 - Its India Stock 2321 RICH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO•?I0RROW. Mornimg, 25 minutes after 9. Evening, 50 minutes after 9. F STOCKS 'weave o'cimCK. India 80nd5......965. 96s pr. New Annuities 7Gg Exch. Bills, 2d...'.1 Ss. 20s. pr. Ditto, gitl.. I9‘ pr. Oinniuni dis. I Cons. fur Acc0unt......7714h THE SUN. SOLE:11 QUIS DIOERE FA1.31.71‘1 ADDEAT LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1813. We received yesterday the Paris Papers of Thursday last, and this morning those of Fri day. 'the Muniteur of the former day contains a very long Royal Ordonnance, for the purpose of establishing, on fixed bases, the principles of the military hierarchy (as it is termed), and arrang ing the progressive advancement of Officers through the diffe'rent ranks. Wednesday the King held a Council of Minis ers at the nuiileries, which sat from one o'clo9k ill fire. The Spanish Consul at Bordeaux has ad . ressed the following Notice to the Chamber of Commerce : " Superior orders to exact with the greatest rigour certifi cates of origin with respect to merchandize froth foreign countries hating been renewed, not only with reference to the ports of the Peniusula, but also to those of the Canaries, ri co , ;11.1 th, Isl. ' of CtdJit, I ilaurn ..... of them, in order that you may impress upon the merchants of Bordeaux the necessity of Collfocilling to these arrange ments. It is the.moyginiportont to commerce not to neglect these formalities, as the decrees of the King, my master, pro - miunce the confiscatiOn of ail merchandize which shall not be accompanied by such certificates. J have the honour also of informing . you that orders have been issued to me not to deliver certificates, except upoh a declaration.on oath of the exporter as to the quality and quantity of the articles shipped, and their exact value." The Count de VAuctrtAup, late Governor o Martinique, arrived at Nantes on the 2dth ult. or board the frigate La Durance. Some of the Journals contain the following pa l ragraph respecting the Ametican squadron : " It is stated from Leghorn, that the squadron of the United States does not appear disposed to quit that Harbour. They expend conNideraLle sums of money, and pay well. Their sumptuousness affords reason to believe that all Re publics do not resemble that of lyeurgus. A grand dinner was lately given on board, to celebrate American Independ ence. It is said, that after the repast the guests testified their enthusiasm by throwing into the sea the plate and all the or naments of the table." The accounts from Aix-la-Chapelle speak of the continued preparations for the reception of the Sovereigns and Ministers expected there. Those Sovereigns who come there uninvited, mean, it is said, to maintain a strict incognito. The following are extracts from the Journals of Friday " PAats, AUG. 7. —The King transacted bu siness yesterday with the Duke de Richelieu, who, after quitting his Majesty's Cabinet, paid a visit to the Duke d'Angonleme. "Amongst the visitors at Aix-la-Chapelle is the widow of Marshal Moreau. " The Prince Esterhazy arrived on the 30th tilt. at Liege from Brussels, and set out the next day to proceed to Aix-la-Chapelle. • FIVE FEE CENTS. AN„'ethie4day. Thursday... 7; f. 35c. 78 f. Qu c. DEFERRED STOCK wedne,:day. Thursday. Of the 22,1 March, 1117....88 f. 36 c.... gq f. 25 c. s,pt. f. 85 c.... 86 f. 25 c 22,1 March, 1818,..84 f. 2O c.... 84 1. '2O c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One Month. 23 f. 90 c. Three Months '231 5 c. '" VIENNA, JULY 28.---,The Emperor will pro ceed to his family estates about the middle of August ; the Empress mill accompany him, and will then return CO this Capital during the journey of the Emperor to Aix-la-Chapelle. On the re turn of Lis Imperial Majesty the Empress will meet him at Munich, where their• Imperial Ma jesties will remain for some time. • " The baths of Carlsbad have been this sum mer much frequented ; the number of visitors amoitnt to 1 ,SQU. " AIX- LA-CHAPFLLE, JITLY 30.—The number of visitors who have arrived here up to this day, i 5 1,491. " STOCKHOLM, JULY 2l.—This day the King closed the Session of the Diet wiih a speech of considerable length. " His Majesty sets out to-morrow for Norway This morning we received New York Papers to the 14th nit. and Boston to the 16th ditto.-- The following are extracts : (Front The Boston Patriot of July 75.) IMPORTANT.-Five 74'5 ,are now bnildinz, and two more are ordered to be laid down ; some of them are in considerable forwardness. A fe . w yeirs will put its in possession of a -naval force, more efficient, perhaps, than that of any in the World, - except Great Brit:Ain. [Fxom poßro RICO " NOLFOLK JULY B.—We learn from Cat Jain CA BROW AY, of th e sloop Howard mil Jetmes, arrived here Yesterday, in 15 days, from Porto Rico, that a British frigate (we believe La Pique) arrived at Aquadiila on 18th June, for the purpose, as supposed, of examining the Harbours and Ports of Potto Rico, having previously looked carefully into 'all the Ports, Bays, and Harbours of Sr. Do►ningo. Captain C. further states, that con tributions bad been recently levkd on the inhabi tants of ,Porto Rico, for the purpose of putting the iortilications at the West end of the Island in a good state of repair ; and considerable military preparations were manifest in that quarter of the Island, the object of which we are left to con jecture. (From The £o'!on Centi:tal, Judy 15) " The United States higate Congress has ar rived in the Chesapeake. from the River Plate ; Messrs. RODNY and GRAHAM have returned in list. [FRONT ST. AtIGIISTINE.J " CHARLESTON, JULY 3.—Captain BETTISON, who arrived here yesterday in one day from St. Auguvine, informs, that on the Ist July the Spa nish garrison there (4000 men) received a , large supply of munitions of war, cloathing, provi sions, and 20,000 dollars in doubloons, (coin Ha vanna!), in two, schooners, convoyed by two brigs of war. A large body of Indians were en camped a few miles from St. Augustine. The Judian Treaty of Peace had been signed j by Ode [l n. g. Ns, the n4)9. ' fe Solicitor-Gener a l, an d t h e H on. M. HILL) i" -111 :, Jan ber of the Senate at Bangor, on the g4th of IF6 to the satisfaction of all the Indian Chiefs' understand that the Commissioners have 7506u 0 , all their claims but four To wn ships, and the I° ,o up the P eno b scot River, which the I n dians re se ' o for their own use . Th e C h i e f s conducted 111, great dec enc y and propriety the who'd De Lion, and the result is satisfactory to all. (From The Bo.s(on Artverlizer Jul.Y 15.) lit " GALLANT*EXPLOM-Capt. JAMES TVg ah of Bucksp or t, Me. in the schooner Eight Sista having 100 quint a ls o f co dfi s h on b o ard, Ives c ' J. ; iie s , by the British sloop of war Wye, Capt. it PER, while fishing off Bryer N.'„ C „ e , 15th ult. The crew were put on board the " r ' but the Captain was left on board which was carried into Dighy..• After lying th . er, 12 - days, one THOMAS. SADLER, prize-rrost , ordered Po and three British seamen - were board, and proceeded with the Schooner tnw r ! li p Halifax., On the night of the 28E11i- 10 " e ' 7 1 0 '; arms $ er tain TURNER carefully secured the fire e cutlasses to his own use, while the prize-wils. the sch °°lle r ; and one other man were asleep—fastened °/e4 beloW, without being discovered, and then to a pistol in each hand, and gave his o rders t° eta , two on deck, who obeyed ; he arrived n eat' r chins on the day following, aud landed the P r '%, master and one man; and again set sao, a nd rived at Bucksport on the 3d day of July' triumph. JANIES TL71103... s' I certify the above to be true. Back,port,..Thiy4, 1318. o i e s ` It will be highly gr a tifyi ng t o the po , „ft large to learn, notwithstandip 4 all the Cl of FACTIoN, that the Revenue continues t° , oi• Vance in a state of rapid progression. . 1 " r Lion to what we recent l y announce d 0 0 flit goye inn prosperity o f th e nat i ona l resourc e`, we 0 11 now the pleasure to assure our Readers, q °l : authority, that during the last four weeks t'lort has been an excess , amount i ng to n ot les s t jra ' 850,QCOL, compared with th e prodnce ', t 150 1 same period last year. Let th en the Intn 3l4l ;,, r a' Qpposition continue to rail against an itd u ' il'- 1 riot' who cond uc t e d t h e C ountry t h r °"gb evitable war, provoked by the wickedne ss ° I ,0 ( unappeasabl e Enemy —a war too, cane 0 f ibe l i t ,llo ' 'he a vy t h at e v er ' pressed up on GIL: Empire, fi n I l ia are now exerting: themselves with ethos 1 lessen the burthens of the people, mid to the Nation as happy in the renovated b l e' t ho 4 : , Peace as they h ave ten d ere d it por 10 1 4 by naval and military achi ev e meu i s vv bich plished the deliverance of Europe. THE Qt , FFIs7.-Mr. KRATN, g been •.• calved in to attend her Al AJF - sTlt Wi f f il , "(l few days. Saturday he went twice to yesterday morning, soon a f ter deeen o'c' fl-15 7 1 '" the Sorg`' °° o o . 4 - trent to Kew to attend the Q UE EN agfiri.os And: report rer' of her MA JESTY ' S health vestrilil;itt. v he QUEEN has had a v v 4 1 / a little mornin , "To .better this • ereit' l-f ' 0 ,b0 , :- • tli Her MAJESTY continued th rou ,bont oal f " of the p a st wee k i n a state o f al7)arent sive improVem e nt ; a", on Snitiltd3Y 'V e 1 10 0 was sent off to Carlton 1 - lonse, t o : 1- '• gt 1 0 , 4 " Pa INCE - REGENT on hi s tetur i4 fruit' * - and to inform 'inn of her palpable His loyal Highness hail, imylled i ate ly 001 1-5 cO C. rival in town, ordertd a Lasty dinner) 3 '; ; i n fl os riace and four horses to be in insta.nt,rece- c r s o : take him to Kew, but the a rrival 01 fl og! press, the visit was '&7,w . y es tel( l4 t fi'l lug the QUEEN are a v e ry hearty' breaki3,s considered herself so much improved,. ": r (l Jt 0 , expressed a desire to take an airing io hart chair, and it vas accordingly got reads"; th -- e ) MAJESTY experienced Sc) mud) tempt made for h er remova l, that th e ' Mi. was relinquished.—(flerald.) The British Press, with its usual la/e ralitY si° l " admits the aut h ent i c i ty o f H us seY's C°' ite k s p o' e but it has not, with its u s ual liberality, fob 1 -' .edged that it was first communicated t° the dr lie in The Su n . ro e. The PRINCE REG ENT arr ived at Car Itn t's- ri t ie about six o'clo c k, on Saturday eVe llillg ' to f l b° c ner, from Bright on . itn e Thi2 Lour) CHANcvt.coe had an aoo.-„ao s e• PSINCE REGENT y es t er d a y a t Carit°";'Ctr lC°tl At four o'clock hi s Roil Highness left 1 , / .louse for Kew, on a visit to the QuE 5l l . O A. • Prince LEOPOLD will leave Eqt: l l"`",i, f days after the PaiNCR REGENT'S Wrti),,,--eic'eig:, KEW, AUGUST 9.--N,:,,terday the . 1 1( 1 1 , so and GLOUCESTER and Princess iluoysTA t and ing in a coach an d f our through ROO t , (Oli o its neighbo ur h oo d, an d return ed to 1 4 ; 0 ' e w r s tr 4 , net% The QUEP.N !, continues better. T h t o (lii : t REG ENT ,A: r p riv i e k t e l t a o ri - d da D y u a c h h o e r s i s t fiv e R ►P O the QUEEN and the Princesses (HY' a $ ° e t ' It is stated in a le:ter from Boor('et-Ilieh'ar'lo. the Ist ins ant, th a t t h e Ar t, rn etuti , tl►vy':lndePeiog ed there a few days previously from d left t r i te dent Govern ment . o f B uen o s Ayre9, h d t , oov e d , port. It was report e d thm t h e Fre" ler vingio inept had declared its intention of .1)11.„e0 strick heutr,ltt.. yhe r e ill the stragg ii t)( f and her Colo n i es , an d t h at i t wow ( 01 ° vs quently m a k e any sort of acknowledef 130°' independence of the Patriot St' te Ayres. 1' ~, • ll] 01 D ~[ ~ `~ . te r , ) 43 Sail the. Ao r td, tl ' ri qui lt 14ai "ett, • gr o ; i 5 Pl Yn 1 / 1 1 111 .4.„11 „: A -..41, •